Example sentences of "[noun sg] who [vb past] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Barbara McCall talks about the days in the 20s when her husband was assistant manager at the massive Marine Gardens in Portobello — the largest ballroom in Britain — and how he discovered a young soldier singing in a beach talent contest who grew to become a star — Donald Peers . |
| 2 | An Arabic-speaking Tunisian-American , Habib was the son of Phillip Habib , a former government agent who had played a big part in breaking up the French Connection in Marseilles during the 1960s . |
| 3 | Her father , ‘ a younger … and illegitimate , though much loved , son of the eccentric 2nd Earl of Kilmoray ’ , served in the First Life Guards and was military attaché in Rome from 1895 to 1901 ; her mother was the daughter of ‘ a Dutch nobleman of ancient lineage who had made a fortune out of East Indian tin ’ . |
| 4 | This was emphasised by those heads of department who had taken a lot of time over their self-appraisal and who claimed that as a consequence other things had had to suffer . |
| 5 | I did n't see anything inevitable about an affair with a priest who had taken a vow of celibacy . |
| 6 | There was a conflict between the role and the man , between the priest who wanted to lead a hidden life and the public persona who worked within a regime of absolute power which he faithfully served while understanding the need to revolt against it . |
| 7 | A journalist who had hitched a lift was killed , Fitzroy Maclean ended up in hospital for three months and Randolph Churchill had to be invalided back to England with a back injury . |
| 8 | The harshest comment comes from an illiterate Yorkshire collier who had suffered a bitter , loveless childhood , tormented by a cruel brother . |
| 9 | In 1971 a military coup brought in General Tren Son Taim ( a Taiwanese refugee who had led a tiny fascist force on the islands during the Second World War ) , and Washington lifted the trade embargo . |
| 10 | Yes I mean er when I s er you know when I was on the Q E Two and was chatting with a fella and er he , they 'd been , he 'd obviously been cruising before and was on this cruise and er they were going on the er another Cunard ship a few months later , and it turned out that he was a hotelier who 'd bought a hotel in Swanage some years ago , I think he 'd had about seven bedrooms when he bought it and he gradually extended it , I forget how many he did tell me , and then he had a bit of a heart er attack and er his doctor told him to , you know , well if I were you I 'd just pack in your job which he did and that was about fifteen years ago he was I du n no if he was eighty or he was approaching eighty if he was n't and was in pretty good form , he was dancing , and er , you know , I mean there money 's no object . |
| 11 | Things had been near perfect at that stage , and they 'd gone for a drink later , with Amanda chatting up the barman who had seemed a nice shy boy , if a bit quiet for the job . |
| 12 | His houses are always monuments of excellent craftsmanship , but as one eighteenth-century critic who had seen a number of them observed , although ‘ all of them [ are ] convenient and handsome … there is a great sameness in the plans , which proves he had but little invention ’ . |
| 13 | The plot , insofar as one could discern it , was both labyrinthine and self-cancellingly ambiguous , built round an interview in a psychiatric hospital between a journalist and the grief-obsessed widow of a German professor who had bequeathed a videotape casting doubt on the official version of Hess 's death . |
| 14 | For the first time in his life , Peter found her pitiful , a tiny figure who had made a cage of her routines and spent her life staring through the bars at the glorious unpredictability of the world outside . |
| 15 | Her accusing eyes had been fixed on the solitary figure who 'd stood a little apart from the others , as if not sure of his right to be there . |
| 16 | In Cocks v. Thanet DC the House of Lords applied this rule and held that an applicant who wanted to challenge a decision of a local authority to the effect that he was intentionally homeless and so not entitled to be housed , had to use AJR procedure because his only rights in respect of the decision were public law rights , namely that the decision would be made in accordance with rules of public law . |
| 17 | This was only a temporary setback to the Long March veteran who had survived a number of purges over previous decades when ‘ redness ’ was valued more than ‘ expertise ’ . |
| 18 | It was pleasant to live in the open , and easy to provision both men and ponies ; and the courtier and man of law who had lived a high life in the London Inns and colleges , and been in the king 's own service , was nonetheless a hardy Welshman , well able to campaign in the hills winter or summer , and never complain of a hard bed or a scanty meal . |
| 19 | Did her trick to catch the saint who avoided becoming a martyr . |
| 20 | I mentioned a boy who had only been at school for two terms , a boy who had had a limp , someone he had been friendly with for a time . |
| 21 | Another interesting case is that of a little boy who had had a difficult birth and had been left slightly spastic . |
| 22 | For the little boy who had found a family could not begin to understand the anguish he had unwittingly caused to the family who had lost a little boy … |
| 23 | The greatest deprivation was German sausage , made more intense for one boy who had brought a whole salami all the way from Vienna only to have it thrown away by a Dovercourt helper ‘ because it did n't smell right ’ . |
| 24 | As passed by a Stockton housing estate we saw a young boy who finished climbing a steep embankment just in time to throw stones at us . |
| 25 | As we passed a Stockton housing estate we saw a young boy who finished climbing a steep embankment just in time to throw stones at us . |
| 26 | WPP IS to be paid $7m ( £4.3m ) in an out-of-court settlement of its long-running legal battle against former executives of its Lord Geller subsidiary who left to form a rival agency with backing from Young & Rubicam , the US advertising giant . |
| 27 | There was the chemist who toyed with the possibilities of making synthetic gas for a balloon , the aerodynamic expert who planned to construct a glider out of bed boards , and the dog-lover who wanted to make himself a dog-skin out of an Irvin flying suit and crawl out as one of the guards ' Alsatians . |
| 28 | He once defended a racist skinhead who 'd committed a burglary while on parole . |
| 29 | Meredith thought it was the smile of the cat who 'd found a whole vat of cream . |
| 30 | He spoke like a child who 'd found a way of handing over a responsibility to its parents . |